James Carroll Butler, a former employee of Culpeper waste water plant, targeted co-worker Michael Utz because of "personal ill will and spite toward him." Butler owned up to urinating in the coffee pot Utz used.

When making coffee on March 16, 2009, Utz discovered liquid inside the pot with a strong urine smell. A supervisor at the time suggested testing the liquid.

Utz, a mechanic for the town's environmental services, claimed the incident caused emotional distress and asked to be awarded $728,000 in damages.

According to the Star Exponent, the civil suit jury awarded Utz $1 in compensatory damages and $5,000 in punitive damages.

Money was not the only thing Butler lost because of the pee incident. He was found guilty of a criminal misdemeanor in 2009, and spent one month in jail, and a year on probation.